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Beat it on Down The Line
Dec. 6, 1973
Public Hall

Train rippin' down the hot coals of the 1973 track.
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Drums
April 12, 1978
Cameron Indoor Stadium

Can't believe I'm submitting this. Long and fun drum circle that's notable because our Jer Bear whips out a steel pan and joins in.
2
It Must Have Been The Roses
Oct. 31, 1990
Wembley Arena

Jerry tearing the standards book asunder with this elegant poetic brilliance
2
Big River
Oct. 31, 1990
Wembley Arena

For a few minutes wembley in '90 becomes the fillmore in the summer of 1970, the way the Dead just slide into a no-nonsense Big River. Shivers
2
Loose Lucy
Oct. 31, 1990
Wembley Arena

Smokin' and refined version of this deep cut, on "All Hallow's Eve" as a chap might say

Comments

Black Throated Wind
Sept. 10, 1991
Madison Square Garden

this one is really like a monet... Such a shimmering futuristic tone
It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
Sept. 10, 1991
Madison Square Garden

Epochal with black diamond melt from a groovy casual cc rider... jericho said it. The stuff of legend for hornsby era lovers.
Shakedown Street
Sept. 10, 1991
Madison Square Garden

branford!!! Weewww mama this one goes deep
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
June 28, 1985
Hershey Park Stadium

jet fueled antics, Lesh takes grip of the evening via plinkin drops of solid state racks of wirepickin' Alembic, plink yamaha stage, chorus weir.
The Music Never Stopped
June 28, 1985
Hershey Park Stadium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Z04tD8_rs nice matrix-y source, economical but very impactful mydland years east coast gig. Opens set 2 and like the bird song before it glimpses melodic but cavernously abstract space. Lesh lovers pizza and taffy backing, pan seared Garcia finish, spiralling The eleven-esque mid section, you'd want a 90's end jam where they halve the length of the chord changes resulting in a more yacht rock feel but this one gets half way there with some creative fillings in